Director/PDMR Shareholding

Robert Walters PLC
11 June 2007


Robert Walters plc ('Robert Walters' or 'the company')

Directors Shareholding

On 11 June 2007, as detailed below Directors of the Company

(i) exercised Awards under the Robert Walters long term incentive plan ('LTIP')
over 1,019,576 shares held in the Robert Walters Employee Benefit Trust and sold
419,285 ordinary shares of £0.20 each at a price of £3.60 per share:

Director        Number of awards exercised  Exercise price  Number of shares sold  Awards exercised as a % of issued 
share capital

Robert Walters                    569,923           £3.60                234,372               0.66%

Giles Daubeney                    449,653           £3.60                184,913               0.52%



(ii) exercised Options under the Robert Walters Executive Share Option Scheme,
resulting in an issue of 625,000 new ordinary shares of £0.20 each, and sold
605,290 at a price of £3.60 per share; and held the balance:

Director        Number of options exercised  Exercise price  Number of shares sold  Options exercised as a % of issued 
share capital

Robert Walters                     600,000           £3.60                324,730              0.70%

Giles Daubeney                     500,000           £3.60                270,608              0.58%

Alan Bannatyne                      26,852           £3.60                  9,952              0.03%


In each case the proceeds of sale will be used solely to satisfy the income tax
liabilities and dealing costs arising from the exercise of the Awards & Options.


Following these transactions, these Directors holdings in the Company are shown
below:
Director        Number of shares held  % of issued share capital  Share options  LTIP awards

Robert Walters             1,172,553                       1.36%     3,763,250      609,235

Giles Daubeney             1,016,091                       1.18%     1,017,250      481,431

Alan Bannatyne                45,079                       0.05%        40,048            0


(iii) The company today bought back 1,666,667 shares of which 766,299 are to be
held in Treasury and 900,368 are to be cancelled.


This announcement is made in accordance with DR3.1.4 R



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